Twain Trailers
Introduction

Hey guys! this is mike with twain trailers um about four years ago my family and I had a rooftop tent on top  of our jeep jk wrangler. And we drove out to Colorado ended up getting nine miles to the gallon which was tough back then ridiculous. Now we could barely go 70 miles an hour going on i-70 going across Kansas because the sheer wind force. It was just a giant air dam on top of the jeep and we just could not go fast. 

Made some modifications to the jeep, tried to get things to work and it just. With the tent on top of our jeep I could not make sense in my mind how we are going to use this as like an all the time overland type vehicle and then also we couldn’t park in our garage anymore. So I’ve got my 40 000 jeep and my 5 000 setup with all the different rooftop tent stuff sitting out in the sun all the time and it just drove me crazy. 

I started looking in the market to try to find a trailer that would work for my family for what we needed. None of the trailers that they had were beefy enough to even support the idea of a rooftop started looking at the off-road extreme websites for jeepers and truck drivers who go off-road. I saw a whole bunch of bolt together flat pack trailers that were gonna cost me between six and eight  thousand dollars. I was like none of this makes sense to me so I started toying with some ideas, drew some pictures up and went and talked around the local trailer manufacturers found one that was willing to work with me, that’s where the twain trailer came from since we made our first prototype four years ago. 

That prototype went with us out to Colorado and back. We managed to get 14 15 mile to the gallon behind our jk wrangler and we’re able to easily go 90 miles an hour. Like everybody else on i-70 9 to 15 may not sound like much but that’s more than a 30 percent gain in fuel economy and if your trip cost 30 less today that is huge now. Another one of the design things I was worried about leaving our stuff out in the sun all the time the trailer is designed to sit to where even with the tent on top, you can back the whole trailer into a garage with a seven foot tall garage door which is the standard that almost everybody has in America. 

So you can keep the whole thing inside without any issues. You can wheel it in there by hand, it’s not a big deal fully loaded to wheel it in and out on person two people makes it super simple. Another one of the huge things that I had a problem with, with all the different options for rooftop tent camping trailers is that they were just a one-time use kind of thing and with mine you can pop these hoops off.  If you look over here to our other trailer, we’ve got sitting next to us, you got four farm pins on the bottom of the hoops. You just disconnect those and then you lift the whole hoop structure off with the tent still sitting up there.  

Set it to the side, now you’ve got a 4×8 utility trailer that can hold up to one ton of whatever you want to haul so that’s a full yard of topsoil, full yard of gravel, whatever you want to haul home just to do your “I had to have a trailer that was more than a single purpose” trailer was going to take up a spot in my garage 350 days of the year just so I could have two weeks worth of camping that 14 days that we go out and go camping that’s just a little tidbit about the back story. Where it came from some of the key big features that we have the reason why we designed the trailer. 

If you have any questions, post comments anything like that below. I’ll try to get back with you and we’ll fill you in on any questions that you have. Hope you have a great day!